PreSpring Excitement 2011

Yup, it's another rehash. This time, since it's this time of year again, we'll revisit the old bridge crossing the river that served me as a beautiful photo model last year; check back here to have another look at the pictures if you like.

This year things are a little different though: I didn't use the digital reflex cam I usually take my pictures with, I just wanted to try out the cam of my new mobile phone, a Samsung Wave II. Of course, such an inbuilt cam holds no candle to an expensive 'professional' camera, and I didn't want to recreate last year's images. But I was actually surprised to find out that the pictures I had taken were pretty decent, even in their highest resolution (2560x1536). The contrast and sharpness isn't as crisp as with a reflex but you could still print them in high resolution if you wanted to and be absolutely happy with the results.

I experimented with some so called 'Scene' modes. With them you can automatically adjust the colours and the focus of the picture depending on the photo scene; on the images below I mostly used 'Sunset' and 'Against-the-Light-Shot' (or something), sometimes even 'Night'. Whenever I tried switching the Scene mode off, you were actually able to control the focus a little better (by tapping the screen you can set the focus) but also the contrast and colours would become dull, and everything seemed like Winter again. The pictures have not been modified afterwards, but I think that's pretty clear when you look at them. Especially when it became darker it was harder to get any decent (aesthetical) lighting done, but if you then turned off the Scene mode you at least got a brighter image.

So yeah, in conclusion the cam is surprisingly good for a mobile phone, and it should be sufficient for snapshots and maybe the occasional scenery or landscape shot, but if the lighting isn't in your favour you'll run into problems.
Anyway, enough rambling - enjoy the pictures!
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